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Most Recent Speech
Obama delivers remarks following a roundtable with small-business owners in Washington
May 16, 2012
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Washington,
D.C.
All across the country, you're seeing examples of folks who have confidence in the economy and have confidence in America, and it's their ingenuity and their hard work that's allowed them to be successful.”
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